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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2015
Second Sight Medical Products, Inc., San Fernando, CA (US);
Kelly H McClure, Simi Valley, CA (US);
Richard A Castro, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Arup Roy, Valencia, CA (US);
Scott Loftin, Rosamond, CA (US);
Rongqing Dai, Valencia, CA (US);
Robert J Greenberg, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Sumit Yadav, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Second Sight Medical Products, Inc., Sylmar, CA (US);
Abstract
A visual prosthesis configured to convert a video image to stimulation patterns for stimulating visual neural tissue including a camera configured to obtain a video image, a video processing unit configured to receive the image from the camera and create stimulation patterns based upon the image, an implantable stimulation system suitable to stimulate visual neural tissue according to the stimulation patterns, a wireless communication system configured to send a stimulation signal from the video processing unit to the implantable stimulation system, and a voltage and current monitoring circuit in the video processing unit monitoring the stimulation signal sent by the video processing unit.